Card-printing outfit.



E. E. POLLOCK.

CARD PRINTING OUTFIT. APPLICATION FILED JAN-2,1915.

1 16339. Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18, rate.

Application 'filed January 2,1915. Serial 110.194.

To all whom it may 0mm 1' Be it known that I, EDWARD FoLLooK,

a citizen of th'e Unite'd States, residing in the borough of Manhattan,city, county-,-'and signs for shop windows and advertising and othernotices.

According to my invention the signs are produced by cutting out acolored sheet of paper and in the same operation pressing it into theface of the card, thus producing an embossed character. Specialembossing type are required for this purpose and the object of myinvention is mainly to provide an improved construction of the embossedprintfing type and means for alining and setting them up. Heretofore thealinement of such type has been efiected by arranging them in chases orother clamping frames which embody more or lessparaphernalia butaccording torny invention the type are free of any restraint except inthe direction of alinement and may be readily moved and adjusted intoany desired positions, and the direction of alinement may be selectedto. suit the requirements of artistic eifect without limitation. 5

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of two type, oneillustrating the face and the other the back of the type; Fig. 2 is aplan view looking down upon four series of type arranged upon thecolored paper and card and in the position of printing; Fig. 3 is avertical transverse section through one of the type in position withinthe press, representing the completion of the printing movement, and

Fig. 1 is a face view of a partially completed sum.

Referring more specifically to said drawings 10 indicates a cutting andembossing character formed on the base block 11, which block has aprojecting flange 12 at, for example, the lower edge of the type and a"groove 13 extending transversely across the back of the type near, forexample, the lower Such printed edge thereof; :The flange 12 serves tofacili ftate removal of the type from the card after the embossing andprinting operationhas been effected and the groove 13 serves first as anindicator of'the upright position of the type and at the same time as analining recess readily accessible to an alining pin or rod 14:, whichextends across a series of type to maintain them in the desiredalinement. A suitable number of the type and alining pins or rods areprovided to enable the user to make upthe desired combinations and topermit of ahnmg one series of the type inde pendently of the otherseries to gain the desired artistic efi'eets as illustrated, forexample, in Fig. 2.

It will be observed that the type are rela tively flat,-that is tosay,'their height with respect to their cross section is relatively,small andin'practice the type are preferably something less than onehalfas high as they are wide. In view of this fact, the type readily standin any position in which. they are placed, and can be readily adjustedin proper'relation with each other to make up the desired combinationwithout the necessity of a special retaining frame. After the type havebeen. placed in the desired position, the alining rods ltmaintain thoseof each series n proper alinement.

In produclng a sign card with the outfit,

' the type are arranged, for example, as illustrated in Fig. 2,with'their faces 10 resting upon a sheet of colored paper 15, which issuperposed upon the card 16 into which the characters are to be pressed.Preferably the under face of the colored paper 15 is provided with thesuitable materlal which becomes adhesive under the pressure of theoperation, so as to firmly secure the characters in the card. Thepressure is effected, by any suitable press, embodying for ex ample thesupporting and pressing table 17 and the stationary platen 18. After theimpression has been made, the sheet of colored paper 15 is removed fromthe card 16, leavingin place the portions of the colored paper out outand impressed by the type. The.

eflect, when, for example, a plain white card and a colored paper areemployed, is to producean embossed inlaid impression of strikingclearness and neatness of finish. It will be understood that theoperation presupposes a card 16 of suitable compressibility and that theedges of the letters procombinationa plurality of type having aiininggrooves extending in the same relative direction in'fthe backs thesevera-lltype, and an a lining rodladap ted to lie Within said groovesand engage a plurality of said type 'to maintain their alinement.

I EDWARD E. PoLnoeK. Witnesses;

, 'duced are confinedwithin themarg'ins of the impressions made in thecard. i

Iclaim: a e 1. A card printing ,out'fitcomprising-in 5 combination aplurality of cutting and embossing'type having alining grooves extending transversely in the backs of the type, andf an alining rod adaptedto lie Within said grooves and extend across a 'seriesvofsaid 10 type. a

2. A. card printing Outfitcomprising in WM. A. COURTLAND, Oo'ravms x(logic; 0! this batent may beobtai-ncd for five cents each, by'addressing the "'Gqmmhsi'oner 0! Patents,-

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